It is clear that there are dangers involved in talking of national feminisms. There is a constant fear of falling into the trap of stereotyping and xenophobia. There is also the danger of representing each national feminism as homogeneous, hiding its internal debates and divisions. However, there is also a danger in not recognizing the differences between, and specificities of, national feminisms. And that danger is that we generalize from our own position, claiming (implicitly or explicitly) to speak for all women, denying or obscuring the experience of women who inhabit different cultures from our own, have different priorities and preoccupations, even if we also have much in common. It is as a reaction to being spoken for, ignored or misrepresented by Anglophone feminists that French feminists joined together with other non-Anglophones to hold a conference in Rio in 1995 (Cahiers du CEDREF, 1995). This was an attempt to reclaim a space from which dialogue would then be possible with Anglophone feminists, but without the dominance of the English language and the theoretical assumptions which go with it. So how can we talk of French feminism without falling into these traps? In an attempt to do this, this chapter examines some of the ways in which French feminism has been distorted and misrepresented within France and outside, and contrasts these with the way in which French feminists themselves portray feminism in France.